Mr. Trump: You May Not Want To Take Credit For The Stock Market Just Yet

Stock market is still bullish
If you have followed my analysis through the years, you would know that I have correctly been steadfastly bullish the stock market for quite some time. In fact, I was one of the very few who expected the market to rocket higher even after Donald Trump won the election last year.
And, now, we are approaching the S&P 500 target in the 2500SPX region we expected to strike in 2017. However, just because the market has rallied strongly after the election as we expected, it does not mean we expect it to continue into the next election season. And, let me explain why that is so important.
‘It’s the economy, stupid’
James Carville, one of President Clinton’s campaign strategists, coined a term years ago which has been considered the most important factor for an incumbent President being able to win re-election:
‘It’s the economy, stupid.’

This post was published at GoldSeek on Wednesday, 26 July 2017.